New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112368182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Huntington, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6314237610
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,288,696
- Expenses
- $2,368,288
- Assets
- $4,774,740
- Liabilities
- $1,663,952
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Dylan Skolnick (Co-Director/CFO): $101,802 total reported compensation
- Charlotte Sky (Co-Director): $5,245 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Cinema Arts Centre is to bring the best in cinematic artistry to Long Island and to use the power of film to expand the awareness and consciousness of our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Victor Skolnick and Charlotte Sky founded the Centre in 1973 to create an alternative to the mainstream movie theaters and media that were then available on Long Island. The Centre presents an international array of films that explore diverse social, historical and cultural realities, and uses the power of film to expand the awareness and consciousness of the Long Island Community. The Centre operates in Huntington, New York. It is supported primarily through ticket sales, membership dues, and contribution and grant revenue.The Centre's core values are: Artistry: Creating a place where Long Islanders can experience the same level of cinematic artistry as audiences in major cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin.Egalitarianism: Making the best in American and international cinema available to all at reasonable prices and presented in a way that is accessible and unintimidating.Community: With their emphasis on single-family houses and reliance on automotive transportation, suburbs can be extremely isolating. Many new technologies have only exacerbated that situation. The Centre is committed to being a center that brings people together for genuine interaction and creates an authentic feeling of community.Inclusion: The Centre is a place where people of all races, classes, genders, sexual preferences and ethnic backgrounds will find images that reflect their lives and introduce them to those who are different.Education: Being an open forum for stimulating ideas and information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.